Download or read book Los sistemas de informaci n geogr fica en los riesgos naturales y en el medio ambiente written by Luis Laín Huerta and published by IGME. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A handbook on flood hazard mapping methodologies written by Andrés Díez Herrero and published by IGME. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish Coastal Systems written by Juan A. Morales and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific research in the last 30 years.From a general point of view, coasts are the most quickly changing systems of the Earth. This is critical, since many human resources, such as the main part of economic and social activities, are located in the coastal areas. Especially in the case of Spain these coasts include cities, wide industrial areas (including harbor complexes), important ecologic systems, and our main economic resource: tourism. Understanding the dynamic functioning of each element of this coast is vital for correct future coastal management, so as to solve problems derived from bad plans developed in the last decades of the twentieth century. This is a valuable text for advanced graduate students and coastal researchers, which connects the specific dynamic functioning of the main Spanish coastal environments and their relationships with human activities.
Download or read book The Basin of Mexico written by Exequiel Ezcurra and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book examines some of these questions in a historic perspective, arguing that the depletion of natural resources in the Basin of Mexico is not just a recent phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Medio ambiente recursos y riesgos naturales written by Carmelo Conesa García and published by EDITUM. This book was released on 2004* with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Geoconservation written by Cynthia V. Burek and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to describe the history of geoconservation. It draws on experience from the UK, Europe and further afield, to explore topics including: what is geoconservation; where, when and how did it start; who was responsible; and how has it differed across the world? Geological and geomorphological features, processes, sites and specimens, provide a resource of immense scientific and educational importance. They also form the foundation for the varied and spectacular landscapes that help define national and local identity as well as many of the great tourism destinations. Mankind's activities, including contributing to enhanced climate change, pose many threats to this resource: the importance of safeguarding and managing it for future generations is now widely accepted as part of sustainable development. Geoconservation is an established and growing activity across the world, with more participants and a greater profile than ever before. This volume highlights a history of challenges, set-backs, successes and visionary individuals and provides a sound basis for taking geoconservation into the future.
Download or read book World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Download or read book DRASTIC written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Parks Work written by John Terborgh and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital contribution to that effort. Focusing on the "good news" -- success stories from the front lines and what lessons can be taken from those stories -- the book gathers experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists into a guidebook of principles for effective management of protected areas. The book: offers a general overview of the status of protected areas worldwide presents case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia written by field researchers with long experience working in those areas analyzes a variety of problems that parks face and suggests policies and practices for coping with those problems explores the broad philosophical questions of conservation and how protected areas can -- and must -- resist the mounting pressures of an overcrowded world Contributors include Mario Boza, Katrina Brandon, K. Ullas Karanth, Randall Kramer, Jeff Langholz, John F. Oates, Carlos A. Peres, Herman Rijksen, Nick Salafsky, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Patricia C. Wright, and others.
Download or read book Sistemas de Informaci n Geogr fica Aplicaciones en diagn sticos territoriales 2 Ed Actualizada written by Antonio Moreno Jiménez and published by Ra-Ma Editorial. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El avance en los sistemas de información geográfica (SIG), y en las geotecnologías en general, está cambiando drásticamente los procesos de análisis y decisión espacial, al conformar un entorno nuevo y potente para obtener, tratar y difundir la información sobre el territorio. Sin embargo, las potencialidades de estas tecnologías están aun insuficientemente explotadas por problemas varios, entre otros la limitada capacitación de los profesionales para aplicarlas en distintos campos. Esta obra pretende paliar esas limitaciones a través de una trasposición didáctica de conceptos, métodos, tecnologías y técnicas geográficas orientadas al “análisis y formación de decisiones territoriales y ambientales”. Para ello se apoya en una variedad de software SIG, estadístico y gráfico, y aporta unos contenidos asequibles, priorizando la ejercitación práctica y guiada. El manual se organiza en tres partes concernientes a la formación de decisiones espaciales. La primera se dedica al diagnóstico y visualización, de cara a valorar situaciones territoriales y ambientales, así como sus cambios temporales. La segunda y tercera se centran en la búsqueda y prescripción de soluciones apelando, bien a métodos de optimización espacial para la localización de instalaciones y equipamientos, bien a la metodología de la evaluación multi-criterio. Acompaña al libro un amplio conjunto de datos digitales, junto con soluciones, y se recurre, como software para el entrenamiento, tanto a conocidos programas comerciales, como gratuitos / libres. La obra se apoya en la experiencia docente de los autores en universidades españolas y latinoamericanas y se destina a la formación de grado / licenciatura y posgrado en campos como geografía, ciencias ambientales, planificación territorial, urbana y sectorial, economía regional, ingenierías, etc., tanto en la modalidad de enseñanza presencial, como a distancia y autoaprendizaje. Con ello se espera facilitar una transferencia de estas innovaciones de la “tecnociencia” a las organizaciones y actividades de ordenación y gestión del territorio y el medio ambiente, a través de una cualificación mayor de los profesionales, que mejore los procesos de gestación de decisiones y actuaciones geo-ambientales.
Download or read book Sistemas de Informaci n Geogr fica Aplicaciones en diagn sticos territoriales 2 Ed Ac written by Antonio Moreno Jiménez and published by Grupo Editorial RA-MA. This book was released on with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El avance en los sistemas de información geográfica (SIG), y en las geotecnologías en general, está cambiando drásticamente los procesos de análisis y decisión espacial, al conformar un entorno nuevo y potente para obtener, tratar y difundir la información sobre el territorio. Sin embargo, las potencialidades de estas tecnologías están aun insuficientemente explotadas por problemas varios, entre otros la limitada capacitación de los profesionales para aplicarlas en distintos campos. Esta obra pretende paliar esas limitaciones a través de una trasposición didáctica de conceptos, métodos, tecnologías y técnicas geográficas orientadas al “análisis y formación de decisiones territoriales y ambientales”. Para ello se apoya en una variedad de software SIG, estadístico y gráfico, y aporta unos contenidos asequibles, priorizando la ejercitación práctica y guiada. El manual se organiza en tres partes concernientes a la formación de decisiones espaciales. La primera se dedica al diagnóstico y visualización, de cara a valorar situaciones territoriales y ambientales, así como sus cambios temporales. La segunda y tercera se centran en la búsqueda y prescripción de soluciones apelando, bien a métodos de optimización espacial para la localización de instalaciones y equipamientos, bien a la metodología de la evaluación multi-criterio. Acompaña al libro un amplio conjunto de datos digitales, junto con soluciones, y se recurre, como software para el entrenamiento, tanto a conocidos programas comerciales, como gratuitos / libres. La obra se apoya en la experiencia docente de los autores en universidades españolas y latinoamericanas y se destina a la formación de grado / licenciatura y posgrado en campos como geografía, ciencias ambientales, planificación territorial, urbana y sectorial, economía regional, ingenierías, etc., tanto en la modalidad de enseñanza presencial, como a distancia y autoaprendizaje. Con ello se espera facilitar una transferencia de estas innovaciones de la “tecnociencia” a las organizaciones y actividades de ordenación y gestión del territorio y el medio ambiente, a través de una cualificación mayor de los profesionales, que mejore los procesos de gestación de decisiones y actuaciones geo-ambientales.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Peasant Boy written by Xosé Neira Vilas and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balbino,"a boy from a village", a "nobody" who writes a notebook about everything that happens to him within the repressed and stifling society of Galicia in the thirties and forties. He tells of the moral and social atmosphere that prevails asking and answering questions and details the most elemental social struggle. There is also however the story of a true but impossible love. This book was first printed in Argentina in 1961 and became one of the most successful Galician books published. It has a lyrical style that immediately evokes sights and sounds of this part of Spain. The author Xosé Neira Vilas writes from his experiences of the era and the lifestyle of boys growing up in that society and provides a rich insight to life of the peasant boy "Balbino".
Download or read book Sistemas de informaci n geogr fica written by Celestino Ordóñez Galán and published by Rama Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La erosión del suelo, los riesgos asociados a la meteorología, la ubicación de un vertedero de residuos urbanos o el impacto visual creado por una cantera, son algunos ejemplos de problemas medioambientales que nos afectan directamente. Para una mejor comprensión de estos problemas, con el fin de evitar sus consecuencias negativas, disponemos actualmente de una valiosísima herramienta: los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG). Los SIG son, básicamente, programas informáticos diseñados para gestionar y analizar datos espaciales. Entre ellos se encuentra Idrisi32, uno de los sistemas de información geográfica con mayor número de usuarios en todo el mundo, tanto por el precio como por la variedad de funciones de análisis que incluye. En este libro se hace una breve introducción a los SIG y se plantean una serie de ejercicios con problemas como los mencionados anteriormente, que se van resolviendo paso a paso, explicando cada uno de los comandos que Idrisi32 utiliza en cada operación. Los cuatro primeros ejercicios son de introducción al manejo de Idrisi32 y en ellos se realizan operaciones básicas que se repiten en los otros. Se trata de un libro pensado para personas que desean iniciarse en el análisis y resolución de problemas relacionados con los riesgos naturales y el medio ambiente mediante el uso del programa Idrisi32. La obra va acompañada de un CD-ROM con todos los ficheros de datos necesarios para resolver los ejercicios propuestos, así como los de los resultados de cada operación, con el fin de que el lector pueda comparar, en todo momento, las salidas que va obteniendo con las propuestas por los autores.
Download or read book Aves de piedra barro y oro en la Costa Rica precolombina written by Patricia Fernández Esquivel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and physically stunning presentation of the use of bird imagery in pre-Columbian Costa Rican art, with an equal balance of photos and text. Includes indigenous culture, contemporary links, and comparative photos of artifacts and actual birds
Download or read book The Lady in the Looking Glass written by Virginia Woolf and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.
Download or read book Geoheritage in Europe and Its Conservation written by S. Smith-Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geoscience Education written by Clara Vasconcelos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization. The research areas that are presented throughout the thirteen chapters cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from educational resources and fieldwork to science models. Chapters discuss specific geoscience topics such as earthquakes, rocks, fossils and minerals. Other chapters present a more interdisciplinary approach addressing topics that aren’t usually examined, such as geomedicine and geoethics, with a specific focus on sustainable development and their alignment with the school curricula. Throughout the book readers can find research-based arguments illustrated with practical examples, which will help them to innovate in their curriculum development area, classroom practices and pre and in-service teachers’ education. The book challenges readers to improve Geoscience Education by changing the ways of teaching, by enabling students to exploit their natural curiosity, and by spurring a learning process that should not be confined to the classroom but rather maintained throughout life.
